Jeffrey Charles McCarthy was born on October 16,1954 and is an American actor and director.
18 Facts About Jeff McCarthy
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Jeff McCarthy completed the masters program in acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco before becoming a company member.
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Jeff McCarthy played the father of Wayne on the short lived CBS show Love Monkey.
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Jeff McCarthy played Albert Schweitzer in Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa, a TV film on PBS.
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David Letterman created a running bit for Jeff McCarthy who played a politician who, in the middle of primary season, announces on The Late Show that he will run for President of the United States.
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Jeff McCarthy has made guest appearances on two Star Trek series; on Star Trek: The Next Generation, he appeared in the season 3 episode "The Hunted" as Roga Danar, and in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager entitled "Caretaker" as the unnamed chief medical officer of the USS Voyager.
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Jeff McCarthy has played various roles in films including Starting Out In the Evening with Frank Langella, Consent opposite Kate Burton, RoboCop 2 playing Holtzgang, the lawyer representing the company that built Robocop, Eve of Destruction, Rapid Fire and Cliffhanger.
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Jeff McCarthy played Bob Freelander in Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Ashman's ill-fated Smile, which opened on Broadway in November 1986.
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Jeff McCarthy played Terry in the original Broadway cast of Side Show in 1997, recorded for Sony Music.
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Jeff McCarthy is perhaps best known in the theater for his creation of Officer Lockstock in the Broadway production of Urinetown, which opened on Broadway in September 2001.
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From 1995 - 97, Jeff McCarthy played the "Beast" in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast.
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Jeff McCarthy later returned to the role for a limited engagement lasting from February through April 2004.
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Jeff McCarthy played King Triton in a workshop for Disney's stage adaptation of The Little Mermaid.
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Jeff McCarthy played Dubhdara in the musical The Pirate Queen which opened on Broadway in April 2007.
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In 2008,2009 and 2011, Jeff McCarthy played Billy Flynn in Chicago, the long-running Broadway revival.
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Jeff McCarthy created the role of Lola Cola in the premiere of the bluegrass musical, Southern Comfort which opened at the Off-Broadway Public Theater in March 2016.
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In February 2017 at the Off-Broadway 59E59 Theaters, McCarthy created the title character in Jeffrey Sweet's Kunstler about the radical civil rights attorney, William Kunstler.
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Jeff McCarthy has worked extensively in regional theater playing leading roles at The Guthrie, Long Wharf Theater, Arena Stage, Barrington Stage, ACT San Francisco, Denver Center Theater and others.